Coffee Cups, Saucers, Kitchenware Items | Beyond Coffee Cafe

I met up with a younger chum recently – he’s a mad keen sports fan and equally crazy about coffee. When we first knew each other, he could get by on a daily fix of instant coffee – whatever anyone had would suit his needs. Then as he got older,…

I often go out to the States to stay with relatives – there is something definitely more coffee orientated at their homes than any of mine back here. I do have other relatives who are complete geeks where coffee and machinery for perfect brewing is concerned. In fact my brother…

There are things about a new shopping development you don’t always expect to see – one that has opened up nearby, after much wrangling between developers, council planners, environmentalists etc, is an amazing selection of coffee houses and eateries that were planned into the scheme at the start. There is…

I was surprised when I had an invite to pre Christmas ‘coffee and nibbles’ in my village some years ago. I was on nodding terms with the hosts – we may even have exchanged two or three words in the 20 years. So not quite exchanging terms of endearment. Yet. …

I have a coffee machine that simply filters coffee through with the filtered water in the top, percolating down into the holding jug sitting on an integrated hot plate. I have not owned a coffee machine before this one. Well this dear little machine has been an absolute wonder. I…

Ho ho the joy of being able to sit down to a table that is laden with delicious coffees with maybe a little cake or other titbit. There is something truly uplifting about the smell of coffee floating about – it lingers in the air above our nostrils and unless…

Something I recall most about my first venture out in to the working world as an office junior and goffer in the export department of a northern mill, was having to see to the tea and coffee needs of senior colleagues. The use of machines to supply this essential daily…

I was in the company of several lady relatives and friends last weekend – happily celebrating a signficant birthday amongst us. There was the usual catching up chit chat – volume rising constantly as each contributor wanted to get their pennyworth in. The only male amongst this gathering was the…

I have just been out and about with some of the boys – a group of us like to go out on trips to various towns and villages just enjoying the walks and pub offerings. There has been a ressurgence in pub fayre these days and to make it that…

I am a huge tea drinker of some fearsome reputation, but there are times when out when a nice coffee, served in an attractive cup and saucer is just the ticket. As is the fantastic aroma that invites you in to whereever it is being brewed up and served. It…